In my younger days I was very conformist, didn't want to stand out, just afolow the crowd kind of guy. Didn't want anyone to think I was the boat rocker tha I was. A few years back when was racing mountain bikes, I was always looking for something to put on after taking off (as well as a discrete way to do it) the hot sweaty bike shorts. I did looks at the Sportkilt, but it seemed rather expensive for what you got, so I never did buy anything. In 2003 while in Seattle for a reunion of my USMC battalion, I made a trip over to the UK headquarters. With Uncle Otto's help in fitting me and feeling the freedom of a kilt I left with the first of my 5 Utilikilts. I would like to come up with a reason about the kilt being part of my heritage, but I'm dutch and swedish with the only scot being my uncle ( a Dewar), or some other deep meaning - I wear the kilt because of FREEDOM.

jack